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In some programs like Firefox (Snap), if I trigger Save as... a dialog opens. If I try to modify the file name, I can move the caret with the cursor keys but as soon as I press any key to enter text, a filter box is shown to filter the listed file names so I can't specify the file name.

This happens since I updated to Ubuntu 22.04. It is very irritating. I always have to save with the default name, then find the file on the disk and rename it.

I am using i3wm in case that matters. Anyone has an idea about how to fix this?

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My issue is solved by replacing the Firefox Snap with the APT version (thank you @24601)

According to @vanadium it seems to be related to Snap, i3wm and xdg-portal-gtk. I checked other snaps and the issue is present in chromium, but not in code, blender or signal-desktop.

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On an Ubuntu 22.04 (newly updated from 18.04) box I got Firefox and Chromium browser back to using the good, system SaveAs dialog box instead of the horrid (((search box focus grabber and almost impossible to change file name from the default))) dialog box by doing this:

sudo snap install snapd

This version of snapd, 2.38.3, apparently overrides the apt-installed snapd version 2.38.

That the snap version of snapd wasn't installed ("snap list" did not list it) was the glaring difference between the bad box and a laptop that did not have the problem.

I should note, the about:config setting, widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker needs to be put back to the default, 2, from 0.

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